Sentences with phrase «harmful than alcohol»

Supporters for these cannabis businesses emphasized the benefits to the local economy, public health and social justice, casting marijuana as less harmful than alcohol.

Not exact matches

Because alcohol consumption is more harmful to people than marijuana use, but the two are substitutes, legalizing pot will lead customers to shift to the better of the two choices.

These costs seem particularly exorbitant when dealing with the drug marijuana, as it is widely used, and is likely no more harmful than currently legal drugs such as tobacco and alcohol.

Six hundred thousand people were arrested in this country last year for possessing or selling marijuana, a drug most authorities regard as less harmful - than alcohol.

Scientific studies have even shown it to be LESS harmful to the human body than both cigarettes and alcohol and those are items you can pick up at the store along with a gallon of milk.

Yet raising the price of alcohol is more likely to benefit the economy than harm it, by reducing the productivity costs associated with workers» harmful alcohol consumption.

Prof Nutt had argued on multiple occasions that alcohol and tobacco are more harmful than ecstasy and LSD and urged the government to reclassify both cannabis and ecstasy.

Evidence suggests that cannabis — though not without its risks — is less harmful than legal substances such as alcohol and nicotine.

On average, except in Bolivia, El Salvador and Peru, most people believe tobacco and alcohol are more harmful than marijuana.